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Page 8, January 17, 1979 - North Shore News

- District
warns
regions

North Vancouver District.

council rejected any
regional encroachment on
municipal ‘rights when it
‘received a report from its
own committee on the
recent Regional District
-_Review Committee report.

~The “council report -
presented by Ald. John
Lakes who had chaired a
committee with Ald. Baker
and Powell as members -
strongly recommended that

the District take firm
position against the
establishment and
recognitipin ° of regional
district as a level of
government.

The committee also
recommended that the

regional district should be
continued as a co-operative
joint venture which has for

its purpose the best benefit |

for all of the taxpayers in
that regional district.

The report proposed that
District Council should
designate water supply and
services, sanitary sewer
‘services and hospitals as
being services that are
mandatory for a joint
venture participation in a
regional district  -
recognizing that there is the
greatest benefit to all the
taxpayers of
Vancouver by the  man-
datory participation in these
matters.

_ Vancouver

-says

' Greater

When i it comes to restraint
in public spending West

already ahead ‘of the game,”
Mayor. Derrick ~
Humphreys -- interviewed
this week about the recent .
provincial government
crackdown on municipal
budget increases.

‘Last Thursday, said the
mayor, representatives of all
the ratepayers associations
in the municipality met’with
George Horwood, director

of financial systems to be _
-Shown--

~the budgetary
procedure and the proposed

budget estimates for 1979.

They were invited to study
the estimates and give their
comments, suggestions and
advice.

_ This opportunity for
budget input in the
preparatory stages is ex-
pected ta be a most in-

teresting development,
Mayor - Humphreys com-
mented.

He went on to point out
that, since November 1978,
the municipality has had a
tax task force under the
chairmanship of Chuck:

But committee members

‘also felt that some services

should be reviewed to decide
whether they should be
mandatory or optional -
citing transportation and
regional planning as
examples. They recom-

mended that all other ser--_

vices be both optional and
on a contractural basis.

They also “suggested -that
any contract made in respect

: Connaghan,
“probably .

levying
. municipality as it eoncerns

-expecited,
. demanded, and the effect of

vice-president
of administration at UBC.

The task force i is charged
with examining the methods
of expenditure and tax
within the

services that are, necessary,
required or
such

expenditures for

services on the —-various -

segments of society within
the municipality.

West - Vancouver schoo!
board, said Humphreys,
these tax studies are in

. progress and the report of

this tax task force is ex-
_ pected to be of very con-
siderable value in deter-
mining the thrust of
programs and services on
and for taxpayers in the
future.

The ‘mayor also stressed
that — with the . municipal
mill rate being a multiplier
on the various individual
assessments — it is the
correctness - of the
assessments by the British
Columbia Assessment
authority fo the whole

of any of the optional ser-

vices should be limited to a .

two-year period. This would
enable taxpayers to.have the
right to present a position to
council which would then
consider whetehr to con-
tinue participation or ter-
minate the contract.

They further proposed
that all regional district
decisions should require a
two-thirds majority to pass.

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“municipality that will give
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_revalued, probably upwards,

If the assessments are

in only a segment of the —
. municipality each year, he
claimed, inequalities and

probably upward, will

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It was to o be ho} ed that the

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branch, with
computerization, would be
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standard factors on which
taxes would be levied every
year. This had not yet come

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about, but was most
desirable in the interests of china figurines .
equality of taxation.

Mayor Humphreys, it is
expected that,
addition of public input and
feeling,
budget in 1979 will be a
similar amount to 1978, plus
the tax
received from buildings and
-improvements that
occurred during the past
. year. ~

the report and submit it to

the Union of B.C. —— =
Municipalities for their Classified _ ' ..
consideration.
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